The stochastic theory of fluvial landsurfaces

Journal of Nonlinear Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-57

  Birnir, B ^a,b   Hernandez, J ^a   Smith, T R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

erosion; fluvial; ill posed problems; invariant measure; scalings; self organized critical; SOC; SPDE; statistical quantities; Stochastic; stochastic process; surface; variogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867974848     PISSN: 09388974     EISSN: 14321467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00332-005-0688-3     Document Type: Article

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